A Multi-Animator Project (occasionally known as a Reanimation Project, or simply as animation collabs) is a type of Fan Animation (MAPs can be original but they're usually based on existing media) that follows the general formula of multiple animators animating one project. A frequent target is re-animating an episode of a show or creating an Animated Music Video.
A multi-animator reanimation by definition is a collaborative effort between animators, where one animator does a variable amount of the scene, and the next animator picks up from there in a different art style (some of which have a serious tone, while some go in the complete opposite direction). It's a simple way of showcasing talent, for better or for worse, and the result is usually a very diabolical kind of insanity.
Reanimation is a relatively new trend, which has quickly become a tradition, recognized by both fans of the work being reanimated, and interested newcomers, due to the subtle humor derived from each animator's invocation of specific art styles, and the effort it took to make.
By nature, a sub-trope of Fan Animation. Its sister trope is the Shot for Shot Remake. Often crosses over with the Affectionate Parody as well. Art Shift is in full effect due to many animators with their artistic styles.
Not to be confused with literal cartographic maps, and definitely not to be confused with Minor-Attracted People (the latter long being a point of frustration with MAP participants).
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Anime & Manga
- AKIRA has an animated collab
recreating the iconic Bike Stop scene from the movie.
- Kirby: Right Back at Ya! has a reanimated collab, fittingly recreating the episode "Cartoon Buffoon".
- Two Sailor Moon episodes have been reanimated this way, as Moon Animake Make-up! and Moon Animate Make-up 2. Sadly, they’re only on YouTube, with no known mirror link, not even on Newgrounds.
- Dragon Ball has a project that recreates the eighth episode of the anime.
- Sonic Rebuilt, a complete reanimation of Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie (the 1999 OVA) by the same team that made Shrek Retold.
- Sonix X Reanimate, which recreates the 5th episode of Sonic X, "Cracking Knuckles".
- Nichijou has its first episode reanimated with a slight pitch elevation on one scene for its Youtube variant.
Film — Animation
- Perhaps one of the most known MAPs is Shrek Retold, which recreated the entirety of Shrek from the ground up (and by this we mean both recreating not only the visuals but the audio as well), in both animated and live-action mediums. Shrek 2 Retold is currently in the works.
- The "Be Prepared" song from The Lion King (1994) also got the Reanimated treatment.
- "All Dogs Reanimated" reanimates Don Bluth's All Dogs Go to Heaven song sequence, "You Can't Keep a Good Dog Down".
- "Shiny Reanimated", hosted by Schaffrillas Productions, reanimates Tamatoa's scenes from Moana (a character Schaff is quite fond of).
- "Be Our Guest", hosted by Schaffrillas Productions, reanimates the famous song from Beauty and the Beast
- "Joshua And The Promised Land Reanimated", hosted by Saberspark, who resumes Joshua and the Promised Land in a recut showcasing the most important scenes of the film.
- The Spongebob Squarepants Movie was recreated by fans from scratch under the name of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Rehydrated as a tribute to the late Stephen Hillenburg. You can watch it on Newgrounds.
- "TOY STORY REANIMATED: You Are a Toy" is a reanimated project by students at DePaul University, Reanimating the scene in Toy Story where Woody, while arguing with Buzz, tries to convince the latter that he is a toy.
- Toy Story Black Friday Reel Reanimated is a reanimated project hosted by Hector Collector where multiple animators reanimate the deleted scene that almost caused the cancellation of Toy Story.
- Toy Story Black Friday Reel Reanimated
Film — Live-Action
- Star Wars Uncut is a live-action version of this, with hundreds of collaborators recreating 15-second clips from Star Wars: A New Hope. It also has a sequel, The Empire Strikes Back Uncut.
- The Violet Beauregarde blueberry scene from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory was reanimated, as seen here.
Music
- Frontier Psychiatrist Reanimated, which was made to commemorate the 20th anniversary of The Avalanches' album Since I Left You, turns the already Surreal Music Video into even more of one thanks to a large majority of the art styles going into Deranged Animation territory.
Video Games
- There was a collaboration that several GModders redid Team Fortress 2's "Meet the Spy" trailer. It can be seen here. There's now a follow-up with "Meet the Medic".
- This is a Spyro the Dragon MAP based on the Classic games and The Legend of Spyro games.
- All the cutscenes for the Philips CD-i video game Hotel Mario were reanimated into a collab, as seen here.
- All the cutscenes from Link: The Faces of Evil & Zelda: Wand of Gamelon have been reanimated in a single collab video here.
- There is an ongoing collab for Sonic Riders, which is aiming to reanimate all of the game's cutscenes, that being the intro, CGI, and in-game cutscenes. View the trailer here.
- Rhythm Heaven Reanimated features all minigames from Rhythm Heaven, including all the Endless Games, reanimated by over 140 animators.
- There is an ongoing collab for Super Smash Bros. Brawl's Subspace Emissary, recreating all of the cutscenes in the game. See the trailer here.
- For the 5th anniversary of the reveal of King K. Rool in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the YouTuber Schaffrillas Productions directed and released a reanimation collab of the King's trailer. You can watch it here.
Web Animation
- The YouTube Poop 24601 Releases a Sammich On Parole made by DaThings was remade in a reanimated collab exactly 10 years after the original.
- Battle for Dream Island has an official re-animated collab of the first episode of its very first season, released to celebrate the series' ninth anniversary.
- Open Source Objects is the first full Object Show of this trope. Unlike many examples on this list, the audio of this show is original.
- An interesting case where the video wasn't animated prior — TheOdd1sOut made his "Embarrassing Times to be Recognized" in this format. Contributors include Katzun, JAMIEvstheVOID and Ivan Animated.
- The creator of the famous Super Mario RPG cover "Rawest Forest" created a Multi-Animator Project of the cover's music video, seen here.
- YouTube channel "Eddsworld Reanimated" does this for the pre-Legacy episodes of Eddsworld. So far, only "WTFuture" and "Spares" have gotten this treatment.
- Team Fabulous 2 has its own one made here. Notably, this was created partially as a tribute to the late creator of the original, as well as for a charity dedicated to cancer research (specifically leukemia).
- Super Mario Bros. Z has a reanimated project of one of the most iconic episodes of the original run, being Episode 6.
- Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers has a re-animated collab for one of its most famous episodes, "Who let the chomp out?", seen here.
- The Rat Movie: Mystery of the Mayan Treasure by Jerma has a reanimation of its own, which can be seen on Jerma's secondary channel.
- NiN10Doh! is an original series featuring multiple animators creating animations that spoof Nintendo games, with all of them originally being written by Chris Niosi.
Webcomics
Web Videos
- Game Grumps:
- "Animate A-Grump" was a MAP of the infamous third episode of Battle Kid, where Arin repeatedly tried and repeatedly failed to kill the plant boss.
- "The Grump Variations" is a variation where, instead of just animating a specific episode, clips from several different episodes were used to create a new scenario. This scenario was then animated.
- "Top That Remix" is, as the title says, a remix of a song that was made in the show, and its Music Video is a MAP.
- "Animate A-Grump"
- OneyPlays had a reanimated project of their one-off video on the Lord of the Rings DOS adventure game.
- JonTron: Jon got a bunch of animators together to make an animated music video for his cover of Katy Perry's "Firework". Watch it here.
- The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny had two reanimated collabs, one hosted by Blabberdookie & Warddraws to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the song and another one hosted by Praxibetel Ix and Tunny Parrish that came out in November of 2022.
- MAPs are pretty popular in the Minecraft YouTubers fandom, with many for different subsections as well as for the overall community.
- "Wildfire" is a MAP from 2016 for "OG" Minecraft Youtubers. It focuses on trolls and griefers.
- "A Gorey Demise" is a Halloween themed horror MAP.
- "Cold Weather" features a variety of Youtubers, both mainstream and smaller ones.
- There are two dedicated to the Youtubers Skeppy and BadBoyHalo, "Ride With U" and "Tongue Tied".
- "Buttercup" is a birthday gift for Skeppy from his fans.
- "Buttercup"
- "Paris" and "Feel Good" are big collaborative animation memes for Sapnap's birthday.
- "Dancin'" is a massive project created by over 200 animators and editors of all different skill levels, featuring many different Youtubers.
- SMPLive has "Business Man", a MAP about jschlatt and ConnorEatsPants
- Dream's Manhunt series has "It's a Hard-Knock Life", "Another Way Out", and "Turn the Lights Off".
- Not specifically for Manhunt, but there's also "Vegas Lights", "Better Than You", "Monster", and "Campfire Song" for the Dream Team.
- Not specifically for Manhunt, but there's also "Vegas Lights"
- Dream SMP has quite a few.
- "Classic", which doesn't have a theme but is a lot more light-hearted than most Dream SMP fan animations.
- "This Is Halloween" is a Halloween-themed Dream SMP MAP with themed character designs.
- "Waterfalls Coming Out Your Mouth", "Dream All Along!", and "Farmers Refuted" feature the characters drawn as cats.
- Fumi03's "Turn Back Time" MAP focuses on Karl's adventures from Tales from the SMP.
- There's another MAP for the same song, hosted by boppdizzle.
- "DreamSMP The Game" is a collaboration between editors and artists to create what resembles a fighting game.
- "Fire" is a group animation project by Chinese fans of the series.
- "Let's Go to War", like the title suggests, is about the L'Manberg war.
- "It's All So Incredibly Loud" focuses on Ranboo.
- "Mind Over Matter" doesn't have a theme, and is instead about the SMP as a whole.
- "I Love You Bro" is a spoof MAP about the brotherly dynamic between Wilbur and Tommy.
- "Classic"
- "Wildfire"
Western Animation
- Amphibia:
- "Amphibia Reanimated", which reanimates the pilot "Anne Or Beast?".
- When Ensemble Dark Horse Marcy Wu got a Theme Song Takeover, fans wasted no time doing a reanimated version.
- "Amphibia Reanimated"
- Chowder had CHOWDER REANIMATED'', which did over the "Hey, Hey It's Knishmas!" episode.
- Courage the Cowardly Dog had Freaky Fred Reanimated!, which did over the "Freaky Fred" episode.
- The Trope Codifier goes to the Super Mario World Reanimated Collab, which remade the quite famous "Mama Luigi" episode.
- The Dover Boys was also Reanimated, making plenty of use with the short's deliberate use of Alternative Character Interpretation.
- The Simpsons: The memetic "Steamed Hams" skit from "22 Short Films About Springfield" got a reanimation collab in the form of "Steamed Hams but There's a Different Animator Every 13 Seconds."
- The Dance Sensation music video "Do the Bartman" was also reanimated.
- The Dance Sensation music video "Do the Bartman" was also reanimated.
- The Bob's Burgers episode "Brunchsquatch" was animated by over 60 different animators with their unique art styles. Each animator was given a small section of the finished audio dialogue of the script and asked to animate it themselves, and the result was a giant love letter to the fans of the series.
- Steven Universe has Gemanimate, a group that has organized three re-animations so far: one of the extended title sequence, one of the episode The Answer, and an on-going re-animation of the song Let's Only Think About Love.
- A lot of animators in the industry got together and re-animated the song "Wonderful Ways to Say No" from the infamous anti-drug PSA Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. A variety of different art styles are included.
- The Woody Woodpecker episode "The Bird Who Came to Dinner" was reanimated. This was a Brazillian project, a place in which Woody Woodpecker is very popular.
- The Powerpuff Girls (1998) has the PPGReAnimate Project, a reanimation of the episode "Twisted Sister". It also honors the show's 20th anniversary.
- A reanimated collab of the first episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, "Help Wanted" can be seen here.
- Another reanimated collab for the episode, "Band Geeks", was also created as a tribute to Stephen Hillenburg after his passing.
- Another reanimated, this time for the episode, "Squidville" here
- Another reanimated collab for the episode, "Band Geeks", was also created
- The Ren & Stimpy Show had Ren and Stimpy Reanimated! (Don't whizz on the electric fence)'', which did over the "Sven Hoek" episode.
- The Legend of Zelda ReAnimated Series does this with various scenes from The Legend of Zelda (1989) cartoon.
- Felix the Cat's first cartoon, Feline Follies, was reanimated in "The Felix the Cat Centennial Feline Follies Reanimated Experience" to celebrate both the short and Felix's 100th birthday.
- Steamboat Willie Redux is one of the few examples of such a project endorsed by the company that owns the original material.
- Rayman: The Animated Series had its second episode, "No Parking", reanimated in The Rayman TV Reanimated Collab.
- Another Looney Tunes short, Duck Amuck gets the reanimated treatement, with a Twist Ending.
- An episode of Timon & Pumbaa, "Monster Massachusetts", will have one as well. An announcement was made on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the episode's first airing, on YouTube.
- The first episode of The Cuphead Show! was reanimated a week after the show aired on Netflix by using an animatic from a film festival that was shown in 2020. You can watch it here
- The intro of Pickle Rick from Rick and Morty was reanimated by Toons By Goons. You can watch it here
- The pilot of Popeye the Sailor (TV Series), Barbecue for Two, was reanimated in June 2023, hosted by Dirk Erik Schulz. You can watch it here
- Rabbit of Seville got renimated in 2023, directed by ZakaZ1996. can watch it here
- For My Life as a Teenage Robot, the first episode "It Came From Next Door" was re-animated for the show's 20th anniversary, with the voice work and music also being redubbed by fans. You can watch it here.
